Table 5.

Knowledge about antibiotic use, resistance and residue (n = 374).

Questions	Levels	Responses	Highland crop-livestock (n = 128)		Lowland crop-livestock (n = 126)		Mid/lowland pastoral (n = 120)		Overall
			freq	%	freq	%	freq	%	freq	%
K1_What does vaccination do?	Correct	Prevent animals from becoming sick	108a	84.4	102a	80.9	100a	83.3	310	82.9
	Incorrect		20	15.6	24	19.1	20	16.7	64	17.1
K2_What do antibiotics do?	Correct	Cure sick animals and prevent animals from becoming sick	89a	69.5	114b	90.5	112b	93.3	315	84.2
	Incorrect		39	30.5	12	9.5	8	6.0.7	59	15.8
K3_For how long should milk be avoided (in days) immediately after treatment of animals with antibiotics?	Correct	7–30 days depending on the label, as advised	81a	63.3	20b	15.9	2c	1.7	103	27.5
	Incorrect		47	36.7	106	84.1	118	98.3	271	72.5
K4_For how long should meat be avoided (in days) immediately after treatment of animals with antibiotics?	Correct	7–30 days depending on the label, as advised	68a	53.1	40b	31.8	0c	0	108	28.9
	Incorrect		60	46.8	86	68.2	120	100	266	71.1
K5_Have you ever heard about antimicrobial resistance?	Correct	Yes	38a	29.7	14b	11.1	23a, b	19.2	75	20.1
	Incorrect	No	90	70.3	112	88.9	97	80.8	299	79.9
K6_Antibiotics help treat any kind of diseases.	Correct	No	95a	74.2	46b	36.5	43b	35.8	184	49.2
	Incorrect	Yes	33	25.8	80	63.5	77	64.2	190	50.8

Each subscript letter denotes a subset of agro-ecological zones whose column frequency does not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.